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-tacism

-tacism is the alternative form of -cism.

Meaning of -cism

Suffix

-cism

  1. Excessive usage of the phoneme.
  2. A sound change towards the phoneme.
  3. The retention of a phoneme when related varieties lose it.
  4. A speech disorder marked by either excessive or defective use of the phoneme.

Origin of -tacism

Back-formation from iotacism.

Questions about -tacism

What is -tacism the alternative form of?
-tacism is the alternative form of -cism.

Words near -tacism in the dictionary

  1. -strophy
  2. -style
  3. -styly
  4. -sy
  5. -t
  6. -tacism
  7. -tactic
  8. -tacular
  9. -tadine
  10. -tainment
  11. -tan

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: -tacism (page history and authors); -cism (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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